Frequently Asked Questions

Steiner education is recognised as a highly valued approach to helping young people develop flexible and agile thinking alongside an ability to collaborate and thrive in a 21st century world. 

Steiner education takes account of the needs of the whole child - academic, physical, and emotional, and is based on an understanding of the relevance of the different phases of child development to optimal learning. 

To read more, visit About Steiner Education, Features of Steiner Education, Evidence / Research, or Steiner Education Australia. 

Steiner education (also known as Waldorf education) is practiced in 60 countries and cultures around the world (1200 schools and 2000 early childhood centres and kindergartens). Currently it is one of the fastest growing international independent school movements. Steiner schools and student numbers are increasing around Australia. 

Steiner education has always has a considered and graduated approach to the use of digital technology in the classroom. 

Computers, the Internet, and smartphones were not around in Steiner's day. We now live in a highly technological age - the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the age of Cyber Space. Young people need to be digitally literate. 

Digital technologies are shaping our world we want our children to master but not be shaped by them. For us, it is a quetion of when to introduce digital technologies, not whether to introduce them. 

The Steiner approach is based on Steiner's picture of providing the healthiest context in which the whole child can develop - a three-fold development of head, heart and hands in  balanced way. 

Given this context of holistic development, we believe the most beneficial time for the introduction of digital technologies in the classroom is the upper primary years or early secondary years. 

Read more about the Steiner approach to Digital Technology.

The focus in Steiner education is always on the pathway to the healthiest possible development of the whole child: academically, physically, aesthetically and socio-emotionally. 

To read more about Steiner education, visit About Steiner Education, 

It is part of Tallowood Steiner School philosophy to provide accessible Steiner Education to all. As such we endeavour to keep our school fees low. Read more here.

Our students do not wear uniforms, however, we do have a hat policy and have shoes-off classrooms. 

Yes, we have a School Code of Conduct and each class has class rules. 

School times are 9am to 3pm.

Classes begin at 9:10am and finish at 2:55pm 

Term dates can be found here.

Yes, there is a transition to Kindegarten program that is held in term 4 for enrolled students.

Information about this program will be notified to parents whose children are enrolled into Kindergarten the following year.

School bus services are available from Macksville, via Wirrimbi, Bowraville, Missabotti, North Arm Road and surrounding areas. Children living more than 2.8km from the school are entitled to free travel passes. In addition to this, we offer a private school bus service to and from school three days per week.

See more info on buses, including routes click here.